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Hatton MS.] GREGORY'S PASTORAL. 29 ne gecniowon. Se ðe Godes bebodu ne gecnæ(w)ð, ne bið he oncnawen from Gode. Đæt ilce cuæð sanctus Paulus: Se ðe God ne ongit, ne ongit God hine. Unwise lareowas cumað for ðæs folces synnum. Forðon oft for ðæs lareowes unwisdome misfarað ða hieremenn, & oft for ðæs lareowes wisdome unwisum hieremonnum bið geborgen. Gif ðonne ægðer bið unwis, ðonne is to geðencanne hwæt Crisð self cuæð on his godspelle, he cwæð: Gif se blinda ðone blindan læt, hi feallað begen on ænne pytt. Be ðæm ilcan se sealmscop cuæð: Sien hira eagan aðistrode ðæt hi ne geseon, & hiora hrygc simle gebieged. Ne cuæð he ðæt forðyðe he ænegum men ðæs wyscte oððe wilnode, ac he witgode sua sua hit geweorðan sceolde. Soðlice ða eagan ðæt bioð ða lareowas, & se hrygc ðæt sint ða hieremenn; forðan ða eagan bioð on ðam lichoman foreweardum & ufeweardum, & se hrycg færð æfer ælcre wuhte; sua gáð ða lareowas beforan ðæm folce, & ðæt folc æfter. Đonne ðam lareowum aðistriað ðæs modes eagan, ðe beforan gán scoldon mid godum bisenum, ðonne gebigð ðæt folc hira hry[c]g to hefegum byrðenum manegum.

II. Ne eft ða gelæredan ðe swa nyllað libban swa hie ón bocum leornedon, ðæt hi scoldon ne underfon [ða are] ðæs lareowdomes.

Monige eac wis[e] lareowas winnað mid hira ðeawum wið ða gæsðlecan bebodu ðe hi mid wordum lærað, ðonne hie on oðre wisan libbað on oðre hi lærað. Oft ðonne se hirde gæð on frecne wegas, sio hiord

the eyes are the teachers, and the back the disciples; because the eyes are in the front and upper part of the body, and the back comes after everything; and in the same way the teachers go before the people, and the people after. When the eyes of the teacher's mind are dimmed, which ought to go before with good examples, the people bend their backs under many heavy burdens. II. Nor, again, let the learned, who are not willing to live as they have learnt in books, undertake the dignity of teaching. Many wise teachers also fight with their behaviour against the spi- ritual precepts which they teach with words, when they live in one way and teach in another. Often when the shepherd goes by dan-